Panama: No End to Rigidity

After
eight days on the scene in Panama, a five-nation OAS investigation
team (Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay) flew back to
Washington last week, unwilling to side either with Panama or the U.S.
on the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a
diplomatic silence pending a formal report to the OAS Council.
Unofficially they said they found no real proof of U.S. charges that
Castroites had instigated the first riots  though pictures of later
fighting did show Communist troublemakers in the forefront. The
diplomats also concluded...